january in the city

Even though I've been to New York a few times before, I had never been in winter- or for over 3 days at a time- so I was incredibly excited to get a whole new view of my favourite city on earth (and to be able to wear a coat in outfit pics).

Here are just a few of my favourite things we got up to over the 5 days we were there.

having a BERET nice time in central park (maybe I only wore my beret that day for the caption potential- what can i say).

Lucy- modelling the SEVEN DOLLAR orange juice. Oh mid town pricing you bring me down.

Friedman's breakfast is something I need back in my life- even if you needed to take out a second mortgage in order to afford the orange juice).

I don't think i have ever been more excited than visiting the comme des garcons store- even if the shop assistants looked at me as if i was about to steal something the whole time.

I have loved CDG for the longest time (apart from the play stuff which call me weird i think is a bit crap) so I honestly felt as though I had died and gone to heaven when I saw this jacket in the flesh- sadly my stuent loan didn't quite cover the cost.

Okay- again call me wierd (if theres one thing I've learnt from this blog is that its a wonder I actually have any friends at all) but I bloody love a public transport system. Using them just makes me feel so local. I also like learning facts about them, like did you know all of the tracks that make up the NYC subway were laid end to end, they would stretch from NY to Chicago and that A worker excavating under the East River in 1916 survived being sucked through the river and shot up into the air after the tunnel he was digging cracked. Amazing.

I feel sorry for Lucy, she had to spend 5 days with this.

I fangirled a little at FIT not going to lie, the amount of youtube dorm tours I've watched of this place is probably somewhat concerning.

I got this hat for $9 in Williamsburg which was an absolute score- not only does it keep my head warm but it makes me look like Steve Zissou from the Life Aquatic. Two birds one stone.

Clearly I have never loved anything more than I loved this bagel.

I hate perfume was actually super worth the 10 hours or so it seemed to take to walk there. The guy who ran it was really interesting when we chatted to him about how the bussiness came to be (blog post coming soon on that- watch this space).

Williamsburg was a good experience, although it reminded me a lot of Shoreditch in London- filled with a lot of cool things but sort of over saturated with hipsters and impossible to find anthing that wasn't gluten free.